Advocacy-Getting the Job Done
Focus question: What are effective roles and activities of an advocate?
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Young people learn about strategies and motivations for people to become advocates for a cause. They identify and research local, state, or national concerns for animal welfare.
In this lesson young people learn about the tools of advocacy for the common good. They investigate the characteristics of advocates and develop their own personal advocacy style.
Young people identify several advocacy strategies and draw conclusions as to their effectiveness. They research efforts in past advocacy campaigns to learn about people, styles, and effectiveness.
Young people identify an animal welfare organization to research, and then develop a plan to help persuade others to take up the cause(s) of this group using an advocacy type of their choice.